Posted on 08/02/2011 10:55:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
If you voted against it, you don’t have anything to explain.
I want to hear from the idiots that actually voted in favor of it.
Tom must have missed the speech from the White House today.
Over 10 years, it increases total spending by $26000billion.
Is there a “yays and nays” posted anywhere?
Thanks.
In other words: The Tea Parties managed to turn the fed/gov spending ship of state around and the RINO/Liberal cabal promptly shifted the engines in reverse.
The only thing I want to hear from those idiots is “I’m sorry” and “I quit”...
Old Doc is a waffling dunder head, he is only behind McCain a couple of steps.
Politicians.....pffft.
“I want to hear from the idiots that actually voted in favor of it.”
Bestdealwecouldget! Bestdealwecouldget! Squaaawwk!
Compromise! Compromise! Compromise! Squaaawwk!
Perfect description.
Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following statement today regarding his vote in opposition to the new version of the Budget Control Act of 2011:
Last week I made the difficult decision to compromise and voted for Speaker Boehners plan. While the Boehner plan was not perfect, it was a realistic approach and a step in the right direction. Among other things, it required passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution before a second increase in the debt ceiling.
However, the legislation before us today was not quite as good. By contrast, todays deal only requires a Balanced Budget Amendment to be voted on not passed. I hope the Democrat controlled Senate will pass a Balanced Budget Amendment as a common sense solution to solve Americas debt problem, but it is far from certain. Additionally, there is a provision which, if there is congressional inaction, would allow President Obama to effectively raise the debt ceiling an additional $1.2 trillion, triggering an equal amount of blind cuts.
After thoroughly reviewing the legislation and hearing from constituents, I came to the conclusion that I should not vote for this bill.
A good guy, very happy with him.
Mea Culpa: I was one constituent who told him to vote for Boehner’s earlier bill, bad as it was.
Ayotte (R-NH)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN)
Coburn (R-OK)
DeMint (R-SC)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC) (wow!)
Grassley (R-IA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heller (R-NV)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johnson (R-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Lee (R-UT)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Moran (R-KS)
Nelson (D-NE)
Paul (R-KY)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sanders (I-VT)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)
Thanks for posting the nay votes.
Best guess on the last moment flippers would be among these folk:
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Nelson (D-NE)
Coburn has something to explain to me. He was part of the gang of 6 who effectively killed Cut Cap and Balance, the only real option to fix this economy. Now he’s afraid and getting religion. I don’t think so! If he’s really sorry let him come out and say he was wrong and work to defeat some of the Rino’s he was supporting.
Surprised that Graham voted opposite his husband...
“The real debt crisis is not a debate that has been imposed on Washington by Tea Party activists. It is a crisis Washington has imposed on the American people through laziness, incompetence, dishonesty and political expediency.”
The emperors are butt nekkid. Good for Coburn.
Colonel, USAFR
How come none of these guys says “I voted agains’t this bill because its unconstitutional to create a 12 member committee to originate the financial legislation of the United States”? Not one of them will stand up and denounce what is effectively a Coup de etat of the United States House of Representatives. Now you will have memebers of the Senate sitting on a House Committee.
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